| Yuuko Aioi | |
|---|---|
| Information | |
| Japanese Name: | 相生 祐子 |
| Romanized Name: | Aioi Yūko |
| English Name: | Yuuko Aioi |
| First Appearance: | "Nichijou Episode 0" |
| Age: | 16 Adulthood (Timeskip Chapters) |
| Birthday: | December 26[1] |
| Occupation: | Student (Teen) Unknown Profession (Adult) |
| Affiliated: | Mio Naganohara (friend) Mai Minakami (friend) Nano Shinonome (friend) Hakase (friend) Yuuko's Mother (mother) Buddy (dog that frequently comforts her) Chissan (household cat)[2] |
| Alignment: | Good |
| Japanese VA: | Mariko Honda |
| English VA: | Morgan Garrett |
Yuuko Aioi (相生 祐子, Aioi Yūko), also known by her nickname Yukko (ゆっこ), is the main protagonist of Nichijou. She is an energetic high school student with short brown hair. Throughout both the manga and anime series, negative things sometimes happen to Yuuko, even if they logically shouldn't, but she always regains her spirit. When negative things happen to her, Yuuko is comforted by a dog named Buddy, implying a possible spiritual connection between the two. She lives in the Aioi Household.
Appearance[]
Yuuko is fair-skinned and has short pale chestnut brown hair with bangs pointed in the middle. Her other part of the bangs which appear on the outer sides are shorter and pointed. Her ends are pointed outwards and has short strands that reach to the middle of her ears. She has dark umber brown eyes and wears her girl's school uniform.
Yuuko Outfits[]
Her school uniform consists of a pale beige sailor top-like blazer with thin white stripes in the middle and at the end of the blazer with a curved white sailor collar that has a thick pale red stripe nearly around the edges and short pale red bow with a chest pocket at the right side. Her top inner part of her sailor top also has a thick pale red stripe nearly around the edges and has white cuffs at the end of her sleeves. She wears a pale red skirt and has darker red pleated designs on it. She wears it with white knee socks and dark greyish- brown tassel loafers with white soles.
She also wears another one of her girl's school uniforms consisting of a white dress-shirt like-sailor top with short sleeves. It has a flat collar with a thick light blue stripe nearly reaching around the edges and wears a short light blue tie. Her sleeves have thick light blue stripes at the top. Her back of her collar is long and curved. She wears it with a navy blue skirt, white knee socks, two bows, and white uwabaki slippers with darker blue tips. She sometimes wears tassel loafers with it.
In character art, she is shown wearing various casual outfits.
In her home, she wears a short-sleeved V-neck white T-shirt with a hot pink T-shirt with short sleeves which are slightly longer.
Personality[]
Yuuko is a charismatic and boisterous girl who loves making jokes and having fun, and is lazy with serious work. She often plays with words to get others to laugh, but often fails by being cheesy, or does it too annoyingly desperate. She is usually undeterred by her failures and bad luck and is innately creative in coming up with new distractions or humorous reactions. She tends to be clumsy and takes a simple-minded approach to life.
She is not academically inclined, falls asleep in class, and is not very diligent with her homework (which she frequently just copies from her classmates Mio Naganohara and Mai Minakami), and tends to fail tests, leading to the ire of Manabu Takasaki. She is scatterbrained and can find it very difficult to concentrate, going on long tangents and overthinking things.
While she is generally an easygoing person, her mood changes instantly if she is insulted. She sometimes speaks Malay by greeting others with a Selamat pagi which means good morning in both the Malaysian and Indonesian languages. She is shown to have a fear of snakes and tends to freeze up easily when faced with something she does not understand but refuses to acknowledge.
Relationships[]
Mio Naganohara[]
Mio is Yuuko's closest friend, but they are opposites in almost every way. This causes some tensions between them at times, but they usually appreciate each other's company. Even though Mio tends to be forgiving with her, some of Yuuko's actions occasionally (almost always unintentionally) lead her to furious outbursts. Yuuko, on the other hand, is often prone to cheer up Mio and/or praise her for her qualities when the time comes. Mio sits in front of Yuuko in class. Yuuko is taller than Mio.
Mai Minakami[]
Yuuko has known Mai since middle school, after the latter moved to Japan from Alaska. Whenever Yuuko tries to make Mai laugh, Mai responds nonchalantly. This causes Yuuko to try to make up for humor deficiencies, though to continued failure. Mai in return has a habit of frequently teasing Yuuko though silent but outrageous actions, knowing full well Yuuko cannot react appropriately. Yuuko is shorter than Mai.
Nano Shinonome[]
Nano is quite close to Yuuko, despite the fact that the latter is not very smart. Yuuko's imagination was originally the only thing that led her to believe she was a robot because of the wind-up key on her back, but Yuuko only liked Nano more because of it. Indeed, she finds the fact that Nano is a robot to be amazing. Although she knows that Nano is a robot, she never told anyone in the series about it. Like Mio, Nano is frequently exasperated by Yuuko's eccentricies, though she attempts to reason with her unlike Mio and Mai. Yuuko is taller than Nano.
Hakase[]
Thanks to her easygoing personality, love for robots and "cool things" in general, Yuuko and Hakase became friends almost instantly after she entered the Shinonome Laboratory. Hakase is always ecstatic when Yuuko comes to visit and will often fight to ensure she does not leave.
Other Relationships[]
- Mother Aioi: Yuuko's mother. Her strict attitude often results in Yuuko being physically disciplined for acting up or her poor grades.
- Buddy: A dog who frequently appears to comfort Yuuko in times of crisis, implying a possible spiritual connection between the two.
Gallery[]
- Main Article:Yuuko Aioi/Image Gallery
Trivia[]
Yuuko when she was in middle school.
- Yuuko is constantly persecuted by bad luck regardless of whether or not her laziness was a factor. This trait is occasionally emphasized by the appearance of a mysterious dog which puts his paw on her back trying to comfort her after an unfortunate event.
- Yuuko's "classroom dream" (which is some sort of mini-story that she dreams about when she falls asleep during classes) is the premise of the Nichijou PSP video-game.
- In moments of depression, Yuuko comes up with poems relating to her present situation. This typically results from being forced into the hallway for disrupting the class.
- When she was in elementary school, Yuuko wanted to be a frilled-neck lizard.
- Yuuko's name means "blessed child", with 祐 (yuu) meaning "divine aid; divine grace" and 子 (ko) meaning "child." It also may be a pun on 悠 (yuu) which means "leisurely."
- Yuuko is a 16 year old Capricorn whose birthday is on December 26th. Her blood type is A-.
- Yuuko owns a cat named Chissan.[3]
- In the manga, Yuuko is one of the few people aware of Sakamoto's ability to speak thanks to Hakase's scarf, something which still never fails to amaze her.
- She's precisely 48 cm taller than Hakase.[citation needed]
- Yuuko is the only one in Trio Sucharaka whose name does not start with M. She is also the most tomboyish of the three.
- There's a theory among the Nichijou and CITY fandom which states that Yuuko is Mrs. Makabe; however this hasn't been confirmed yet. So far the only evidence(s) are these:
- Both Yuuko and Mrs. Makabe's mothers are good at fighting.
- Yuuko and Mrs. Makabe have poor drawing skills.
- Both Yuuko and Mrs. Makabe have a similar hairstyle and attitude.
- It is unknown what her profession in the future is: in chapter 192 she appears wearing a foreign uniform. This is the first and only glimpse of her in the future for now.
- She apparently once fell out of a sidecar[4]
Quotes[]
- "Super Ultra Great Delicious Wonderful Bad"
- "Just kidding" (なんつって - nantsutte)
- "D-D-D--Doppio?!"
- "Selamat Pagi!"
Character songs[]
- Nichijou Character Song 5 - Aioi Yuuko - released Aug 10, 2011.
- "Yukko no Selamat Pagi da yo Jinsei wa" - solo
- "Yukko no Gag Hyaku Renpatsu" - solo
- WEB Radio - Nichijou no Radio - the theme of the radio program "Nichijou no Radio" - released Jul 6, 2011.
- "Yukko-Mio-Mai no Sucharaka San-nin Shuu" - with Mio and Mai
- Nichijou no Gasshou Kyoku - a collection of outro theme starting from episode 14 - released Oct 5, 2011.
- "Kaijuu no Ballad" - with Mio and Mai
- "Let's search for Tomorrow" - with Mio and Mai
- "Tabidachi no Hi ni" - with Mio, Mai, Nano, Hakase, and Sakamoto
References[]
- ↑ Chapter 211
- ↑ https://numahachi.tumblr.com/post/138366522559/on-yukkos-cat
- ↑ numahachi. On Yukko's Cat. Tumblr.
- ↑ Chapter 207